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Artisan Talent Navigates Interstate Compliance & Reduces Insurance Costs by 15% with Launchways
Artisan Talent is a digital, creative, and marketingstaffing agency that does things alittle differently. They take a unique approach to making the right connectionsby realizing that they are humans helping humans – companies and talent alike.From small agencies to...
How Community Building Shapes the Launchways Experience
One of Launchways' core values is to be a Community-Builder. Our team is community-minded and constantly looking for new opportunities to foster a richer community within Launchways and in the Chicago ecosystem. This common vision of bridge-building helps us form...
Lindemann Improves Benefits, Reduces Insurance Costs, and Tackles Ongoing Business Challenges with Launchways
https://vimeo.com/373966291/bae18e92e3 Insurance is Just the Start Lindemann is the nation's largest chimney service company. It was founded in 1969 by former Fire Captain Gary Lindemann and continues to service Chicago's North Shore and Northern Suburban Area. The...
Creating an Ongoing Feedback Loop for Employee Performance Management
Performance assessment and management should be two of any business leader’s top priorities. Unfortunately, discussions about specific employee performance often get lost in the shuffle until a serious issue arises. That’s because the prevailing performance assessment...
The Top 11 Employee Benefit Challenges Facing Today’s Businesses
At Launchways, we pride ourselves on working closely with each individual client to identify their workforce’s unique needs, navigate their business model’s unique challenges, and leverage emerging best practices to help them create employee benefit packages that...
Modernizing Your Approach to Performance Management
Too many in management, from ground-level supervisors to C-level leadership, have trouble answering questions regarding their team’s performance in an honest, fact-driven way that speaks to actual performance and not just day-to-day habits or cultural fit. This...
Launchways Partners With Rippling to Help Clients Streamline their HR and IT Functions
This month, Launchways formally announced our partnership with Rippling, the software company unifying employee systems such as payroll, benefits, devices, and 3rd party apps. Launchways formed this partnership to give our clients unique access to Rippling's...
Webinar: Everything You Wanted to Know About Workplace Diversity & Inclusion but Were Afraid to Ask
Diversity and inclusion are the keys to creating a truly modern team that’s built to maximize each individual’s skills, shore up individual weaknesses, and build a powerful unit that can thrive, brainstorm, problem-solve, and celebrate achievements together. With that...
Top 10 HR Challenges Growing Businesses Must Prepare For in 2020
HR practices and policies must evolve over time to reflect emerging best practices, changes to regulations, and shifting cultural values. Throughout the last decade, our shared understanding of what the workplace looks and feels like has gone through significant...
At Launchways, Employees Bring Their Authentic Selves to Work
At Launchways, we know that what makes us different is what makes us strong and that our team members thrive when they can be and share their full, authentic selves at work. Supporting and encouraging each of our team members as whole people, not just as productive...
The Top 5 Challenges of Open Enrollment (And How HR Departments Can Manage Them Successfully)
The open enrollment period between November 1 and December 15 can be one of the most challenging times of year for HR professionals. Getting enrollment right in a timely manner is crucial to supporting your workforce and maximizing the two-way value of employee...
Illinois Employers: Are You Ready For Legalized Recreational Cannabis Affecting Your Workplace?
If not, now is the time! Illinois just became the 11th state to permit recreational cannabis. Governor Pritzker signed this legislation, as promised, on June 25, 2019. Beginning January 1, 2020, the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (“Act”), will allow adults...